All 28 Uses of
vaccine
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- I've tried to imagine how she'd feel knowing that her cells went up in the first space missions to see what would happen to human cells in zero gravity, or that they helped with some of the most important advances in medicine: the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization.†
Chpt Pro.
- But they don't never explain more than just sayin, Yeah, your mother was on the moon, she been in nuclear bombs and made that polio vaccine.†
Chpt Deb.
- the public grew desperate for a vaccine.
Chpt 2.13 *vaccine = a substance (such as weakened or dead disease-causing microorganism) injected into a person or animal to stimulate the production of antibodies to protect against a disease
- In February 1952, Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh announced that he'd developed the world's first polio vaccine, but he couldn't begin offering it to children until he'd tested it on a large scale to prove it was safe and effective.†
Chpt 2.13
- The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP)—a charity created by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who'd himself been paralyzed by polio—began organizing the largest field trial ever conducted to test the polio vaccine.†
Chpt 2.13
- If the vaccine worked, the serum from a vaccinated child's blood would block the poliovirus and protect the cells.†
Chpt 2.13
- This discovery meant that if HeLa was susceptible to poliovirus, which not all cells were, it would solve the mass-production problem and make it possible to test the vaccine without millions of monkey cells.†
Chpt 2.13
- With those cells, scientists helped prove the Salk vaccine effective.†
Chpt 2.13
- Soon the New York Times would run pictures of black women hunched over microscopes examining cells, black hands holding vials of HeLa, and this headline: UNIT AT TUSKEGEE HELPS POLIO FIGHT Corps of Negro Scientists Has Key Role in Evaluating of Dr. Salk's Vaccine HELA CELLS ARE GROWN Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white.†
Chpt 2.13
- One had used them to grow a vaccine for a common-cold-like virus, which he'd injected—along with bits of HeLa—into more than four hundred people.†
Chpt 2.17
- "There is the possible danger," Southam wrote, "of initiating neo-plastic disease by accidental inoculation during laboratory investigation, or by injection with such cells or cell products if they should be used for production of virus vaccine."†
Chpt 2.17
- When Southam reported his results, the press hailed them as a tremendous breakthrough that could someday lead to a cancer vaccine.†
Chpt 2.17
- He'd been giving himself and patients intravenous injections of vaccines made from HeLa cells, which he'd gotten from George Gey's lab in such enormous quantities, they joked that instead of injecting them, Björklund could just fill a pool with HeLa—or maybe even a lake—and swim around in it for immunity.†
Chpt 2.17
- From her cells came all these different creations—medical miracles like polio vaccines, some cure for cancer and other things, even AIDS.†
Chpt 2.21
- "I didn't know about that, but the other day President Clinton said the polio vaccine is one of the most important things that happened in the twentieth century, and her cells involved with that too."†
Chpt 2.21
- Researchers raced to find what they believed to be the elusive cancer virus, with hopes of developing a vaccine to prevent it.†
Chpt 2.22
- Instead he told her about Henrietta's cells being used for the polio vaccine and genetic research; he said they'd gone up in early space missions and been used in atomic bomb testing.†
Chpt 3.23
- They also carried a rare virus called HTLV, a distant cousin of the HIV virus, which researchers hoped to use to create a vaccine that could stop the AIDS epidemic.†
Chpt 3.25
- Researchers around the world were working to develop a vaccine for hepatitis B, and doing so required a steady supply of antibodies like Slavin's, which pharmaceutical companies were willing to pay large sums for.†
Chpt 3.25
- With the help of Slavin's serum, Blumberg eventually uncovered the link between hepatitis B and liver cancer, and created the first hepatitis B vaccine, saving millions of lives.†
Chpt 3.25
- These discoveries would help lead to an HPV vaccine, and eventually earn zur Hausen a Nobel Prize.†
Chpt 3.27
- She made lists of questions for me and printed articles about research done on people without their knowledge or consent—from a vaccine trial in Uganda to the testing of drugs on U.S. troops.†
Chpt 3.31
- Scientists use these samples to develop everything from flu vaccines to penis-enlargement products.†
Chpt Aft.
- Without those tissues, we would have no tests for diseases like hepatitis and HIV; no vaccines for rabies, smallpox, measles; none of the promising new drugs for leukemia, breast cancer, colon cancer.†
Chpt Aft.
- Chapter 13: The HeLa Factory For further reading on the history of the polio vaccine, see The Virus and the Vaccine, by Debbie Bookchin and Jim Shumacher; Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinski; Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, by Jeffrey Kluger; and The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Crisis in Vaccines, by Paul Offit.†
Chpt notes
- Chapter 13: The HeLa Factory For further reading on the history of the polio vaccine, see The Virus and the Vaccine, by Debbie Bookchin and Jim Shumacher; Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinski; Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, by Jeffrey Kluger; and The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Crisis in Vaccines, by Paul Offit.†
Chpt notes
- Chapter 13: The HeLa Factory For further reading on the history of the polio vaccine, see The Virus and the Vaccine, by Debbie Bookchin and Jim Shumacher; Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinski; Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, by Jeffrey Kluger; and The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Crisis in Vaccines, by Paul Offit.†
Chpt notes
- Chapter 13: The HeLa Factory For further reading on the history of the polio vaccine, see The Virus and the Vaccine, by Debbie Bookchin and Jim Shumacher; Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinski; Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, by Jeffrey Kluger; and The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Crisis in Vaccines, by Paul Offit.†
Chpt notes
Definition:
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(vaccine) a substance (such as weakened or dead a disease-causing microorganism) injected into a person or animal to stimulate the production of antibodies to protect against a disease